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There are so many separate selves no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
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I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
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To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
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Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
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I hate the word lesbian it tells you nothing its only purpose is to inflame.
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No emotion is the final one.
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Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.
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I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
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You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.
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Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
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How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
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You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?
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Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.
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Perhaps all romance is like that not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
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Why is the measure of love loss?
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The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
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There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
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